It's from Tournon, RMC Decouverte had a documentary about the 96-98 period, named Génération Zidane. Jacquet idea was to have Zidane as the playmaker and Cantona as the goalscorer but Cantona didn't thought that it was a role where he could perform well enough, he wanted more freedom.
PS: Cantona has never been booted by the FFF, he was very liked by Jacquet, Houllier, Platini and the FFF in general, in 97 he joined it to become a player and manager of the Beach soccer national team.
Difficult to believe that Cantona declined the opportunity to play for France because he didn't want to be the main striker with Zidane as a number 10
Suggesting that Cantona was liked by Jacquet in 1994-96 because the retired player in 1997 became a beach football player (and as a result manager of this team) just doesn't make sense. Beach football just needs famous players for marketing purposes...
Of course, the King really did want to play the Euro in England... and Jacquet had a plan that would exclude big egos and players who did symbolise the 1994 failure such as the King and El Magnifico Ginola.
Cantona and Ginola should have been part of the Euro 1996 instead of players like madar and martins ...
Given how good he was, Theirry Henry should have scored more for Les Bleus.
Good point. I fully agree.
There are several reasons IMO
1. Henry scored 51 goals and only 2 assists from Zidane despite both played 57 timed together. Replace Zidane by Bergkamp and the story would have been different.
2. Another interesting aspect is that Henry was often deployed on the left or as a support striker to support another striker like trezeguet at the euro 2004 or Dugarry.
3. Unlucky in some circumstances
Euro 2004 - instead of having Pires on the left side and recreating the gunners selection, Pires was deployed on the right to accommodate Zidane. And a 442 with Trezeguet and Henry doesn't work.
WC 2002 - Henry was at his peak but incredibly lucky maybe injured plus red card against Uruguay iirc